University of St. Thomas

Academic History

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., University of Michigan
B.A., John Carroll University

Expertise/Specialties 

American Literature
Writing Theory
James Joyce
Utopian Studies  

Selected Publications

"Carnival and Carnage: Falling like Rock Stars and Second Lieutenants." America Rediscovered: Critical Essays on Literature and Film of the Vietnam War. Ed. Owen W. Gilman, Jr. and Lorrie Smith. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol 986. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990.

"Bellow's More-or-Less Human Bestiaries: Augie March and Henderson the Rain King." Ball State University Forum, vol. 23, no. 1, pp.12-22, Winter 1982.

"John Fowles's Version of Pastoral: Private Valley's and the Parity of Existence." Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, vol. 21, no. 2, pp.72-84, 1979.

"Eros and Thanatos in William Dean Howells's 'Editha'." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910, vol. 12, pp. 283-87, 1979.

"An Interview with Iris Murdoch." Contemporary Literature, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 129-140, Spring 1977.